From: Per Abrahamsen (abraham@dina.kvl.dk)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 06:14:04 CDT
sommar@algonet.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
> Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> > 6.2. Posted-And-Mailed
> >
> > Posted-And-Mailed-content = "yes" / "no"
> >
> > [Well, do we want this header, or not?]
>
> I believe it is completely pointless. The information is of interest,
> yes, but what use does it make in a header?
It can automate the process. The reading agent will be able to mark
such messages in a clear way, and the reader will no longer depend on
whether the sender was smart enough to indicate that it was a CC in
the body of the message.
The obvious choice, the Newsgroups header, is for historical reasons
unreliable for that purpose. A new header will not have that problem.
As an extra bonus, combined news and mail agents (like MSOE, Mozilla,
Agent and Gnus) will know they have to ask the news server when the
user wants to see the parent message, instead of looking on the mail
archive.